...knip...Anyone else noticing the extremely long lag on the blockchain right now? It was like 2 hours of no updates, then all of a sudden we jumped 6 blocks. My wallet, the seeds page, and the exchanges all had the same issue.
-Fuse
EDIT- Looks like the total network hashrate halved, and the block times are coming in faster than normal. Not saying this is what it is, but I've seen this with coins being attacked with exploit attacks. I would suggest pool ops keep an eye on your pools.
EDIT- Looks like we're cracking blocks every 5 seconds. This isn't normal.EDIT- https://explorer.guldencoin.com/#/address/Gf7wGAwJGDLfoHcNCRLKZqpk2EQU5ixA6c - our mystery wallet claiming all these blocks right now.
We're watching this closely right now..
What seems to have happened is that a jumppool/multipool mined until KGW changed the difficulty to 535 (block 116955).
After that the multipool left and the remaining miners had a hard time mining blocks.
A few hours later two blocks were mined and the difficulty dropped to 354 (block 116957). At that point the multipool started mining NLG again. Since about 2:30 hours of blocks were missing the KGW kept difficulty low so the pool could mine a lot of blocks very fast. Other miners also got some blocks, but G7f got most of them because they have a lot of hashing power.
We're now at block 117047 with diff 483. The last two blocks were not mined by the multipool, it seems they have left again.
The main problem here is the huge spike in block-time which causes delay in transactions being confirmed.
This is unacceptable and we're doing extensive research on the problem and are looking at some solutions. But don't expect huge changes too soon, it's important to make rational decisions and not jump too quickly in a situation like this.
edit: As Jero said, the problem solves itself when more miners join the network (which happens when price rises). At that point the hashrate spikes of mining pools will become less noticable.
